Talk:Konqueror
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[edit] Konqueror running flash?
Does flash run on konqueror? yes
"primarily developed for the Linux platform, but also available for some other platforms (including BSD and, recently, Microsoft Windows, although Windows support is very limited)"
I can't see KDE, KHTML, or Konqueror for Windows anywhere, except under Cygwin, can someone confirm this please?
- A cygwin port is indeed not an MS Windows port. But since when is Linux an OS? The OS field in the table should be GNU (or GNU/*), *BSD, Solaris or something like POSIX, to say it's OS independant and standards compliant. NetBSD, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, Mandriva, OpenBSD, are real OSs, but all of those would be too much to mention.
developed by volunteers ? Most of the guys that developed Konqueror have been paid by Suse, Trolltech or some other company.
Some discussion of konqueror's instability, at least in recent kubuntu incarnations, is called for.
[edit] Windows?
The article says that Konqueror has been ported to Windows with "limited support," but I'm not sure if this is true. The closest I've seen was a defunct project that intended to build a Windows browser using the KHTML engine that does not currently have downloads available. Theshibboleth 03:56, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
- The port works currently, really limited... I tested it on my own, but it takes more then a sophisticated user right now to make it run, and it is not even pre-alpha usable... But that will change pretty SOON, because kde4 developement is stepping forward... --PSIplus Ψ 22:37, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
I removed a link to Acid2 page, because IMHO it is not related to Konqueror - at least not more than to any other web browser - so I do not think it is necessary to be linked from the page about Konqueror. The text contains info that "Also, as of version 3.5.0, Konqueror passes Acid2 CSS compliance test." and IMHO this should be enough. Then I added links to KHTML and Konqueror Embedded, which are more relevant. Viliam Bur 195.46.70.44 13:26, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] search code is not correct
Page gives this url for searching Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=\{@}&go=Go but I think that this is the obsolete version and it should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=\{@}&go=Go
Fixed
[edit] Plugins
"Problems can also result from the use of plugins on a Web site which cannot be run under the operating system on which Konqueror is run"
Konqueror can use the plugins installed in other browsers as well as change its browser identification.
Personally, I prefer Firefox, but I just thought I'd point this out. ;)
[edit] Kmozilla ?
A quick search on Google and in the Ubuntu repositories show no sign of a kmozilla binding. Wouldn't it be pertinent to remove this part of the article, or can someone shed light on this issue ? --Vanieter 22:41, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
- Indeed. I'm moving this to talk for now:
- "Because of Konqueror's modular nature, Gecko layout engine from Mozilla has been used instead of Konqueror's KHTML renderer. This feature was called kmozilla, and was a former part of the kdebindings package."
[edit] Security issues?
I've noticed recently that there's been a lot of consternation surrounding the security situation of Konqueror--specifically, problems in the way it handles certificates. Also, people have been drawing parallels to Konqueror's support of some sort of filesharing system (?) and Microsoft's ActiveX (which purportedly lead to viruses/security threats/spyware) (see: http://dot.kde.org/1110652641/1110817334/). Could someone write up about this soon? 71.202.183.56 00:21, 4 March 2007 (UTC)eeshking
